Showing posts with label PBS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PBS. Show all posts

Thursday, January 08, 2009

What I'm Hearing...New Jersey Collegiate Career Day at Rutgers

Yesterday Astron had a booth at the New Jersey Collegiate Career Day, sponsored by Rutgers University. The event was featured on NJN News last night! NJN News is the nightly news program of New Jersey Network (channel 50), NJ's PBS affiliate.

Check out this link:

http://www.njn.net/television/webcast/njnnews/wednesday.html

to see our own Technology Supervisor Brendan Williams interacting with a candidate. Marketing Specialist Stephen Lella can be seen on the right in the background during the interview with Charles Kratovil.

Fast forward to 18:45 of the news video to get right to the story.

We had at least 300 candidates stop by our booth, keeping all three of us busy from opening at 9:30 AM straight through 2:30 PM.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

What I’m Hearing…Fun Stuff

It doesn’t have to be all work all the time. During the long President’s Day holiday, I took some time to enjoy TV!

I enjoy learning more about location specific history. You know, things like “on the site where there’s now a Wal-Mart, in 1829 it was the site of a working farm.” There were two interesting programs on this weekend which are worth viewing online.

First, First Look New York, a program broadcast on WNBC in New York, ran a story about President Theodore Roosevelt’s home. Comedian Mo Rocca takes us on a tour of the President’s home and shares interesting trivia. Be sure to watch for the segment regarding President Roosevelt watching President Lincoln’s cortège for an “it happened here” moment.

Second, PBS’s American Experience ran a fascinating story about the history of New York’s Grand Central Station. Who knew the building that so many of us take for granted today had such a past?

Lastly, for some chuckles, Fox’s Family Guy ran an amusing, if impractical, approach to combating identity theft. The show aired Sunday, February 17th.

Happy viewing!

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